Are Our Best Days Behind Us?

Are Our Best Days Behind Us?

Americans are wrestling with this seminal question that doesn’t have a satisfactory answer. We are so often divided into an infinite number of pots, keeping us in opposition to one another: For many, their observations and the constant drumbeat of bad news...
Easy Money

Easy Money

As hard as it may be to accept, a significant minority in this country genuinely believe the government can endlessly create money out of thin air to pay for giveaway programs without consequence. Why else would presidential candidate Kamala Harris propose another...
The Democratic Cult

The Democratic Cult

Political party conventions are renowned for their share of sophomoric tomfoolery and rank partisanship. This last convention was much more akin to a well-defended bunker where, upon entering, you were required to exchange your freedoms and self-interest in much the...
Layaway Country

Layaway Country

I’m looking at my county’s proposed property tax increase of 11% in the anticipated 2025 fiscal budget. That’s on top of last year’s 7% and the previous year’s increases, which always exceeds the inflation rate. Government workers at all...
What Is the Story?

What Is the Story?

On any given day, journalists file thousands of stories. Quite a few are on the same subject, some explore new ground, and a surprising number of “stories” are effectively made up or push fallacious conclusions or conjectures. What is fascinating, or...
Seven Days In June That Changed America

Seven Days In June That Changed America

Optics frequently matter more than reality. Years of hiding Joe Biden’s journey through dementia and mental decline as a defense against former President Trump’s building electoral prowess have destroyed the media’s standing in many voters’...
Walking Over The Graves of Our Heroes

Walking Over The Graves of Our Heroes

Since 1861, more than 1,350,000 American soldiers have given their lives in defense of our country and what it stands for. A bit less than half of those died in our own American Civil War and settled the fundamental mistake that was slavery. I hope most see that...
Do Hunter and Dr. Jill Run the Country?

Do Hunter and Dr. Jill Run the Country?

The story from every sane American’s lips is one of being fooled. Joe Biden may be worse today, but he was not in tip-top shape before his inauguration. Too many people in his orbit knew it and did not care, but access to the Office of the Presidency was the...